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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

free devanagari font download

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1[ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.ttf)Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2[ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L2.ttf)Note: Has fewer ligatures than AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L1.Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3[ show all samples ] (AA_NAGARI_SHREE_L3.ttf)Note: Has vertical ligatures.Source: Free download from the Database of Indian Sacred Scriptures at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.Stats: Version 1.00 has 347 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Akhil HE[ show all samples ] (Akhil_HE.TTF)Note: Fine-tuned (instructed) for better display at small point sizes.Source: Available for purchase from ISE - Aditi Info.Stats: Version 1.00 has 397 glyphs and 116 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, LatinOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

CDAC-GISTSurekh[ show all samples ] (CDACSRNT.TTF and CDACSRBT.TTF [bold])Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, LatinOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

CDAC-GISTYogesh[ show all samples ] (CDACYGNT.TTF [normal], CDACYGBT.TTF [bold], and CDACYGIT.TTF [italic] from GISTYogeshN.zip)Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.Stats: Version 2.0 has 666 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, LatinOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Chandas[ show all samples ] (Chandas.ttf)Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari.Style: Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style of Devanagari script while its sister font Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style (although it's not evident with the characters used as the sample text).Source: Free download from Chandas.Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,002 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics)OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

Gurumaa[ show all samples ] (Gurumaa_v128.ttf [regular], Gurumaa_v128_b.ttf [bold], Gurumaa_v128_i.ttf [italic], and Gurumaa_v128_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 16645-Gurumaa_v128.tar.bz2)Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux).Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.Stats: Version 1.28 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Jaipur Unicode NFLC[ show all samples ] (Jaipur Unicode NFLC.ttf from jaipurunicode.zip)Source: Free download from the Hindi page at the University of Pennsylvania.Stats: Version 6/1/99 has 523 glyphs and 413 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, LatinOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

JanaHindi[ show all samples ] (RKJanaHindi.TTF from janahindi.zip)Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

JanaMarathi[ show all samples ] (RVJanaMarathi.TTF from janamarathi.zip)Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.Stats: Version 1.00 July 7, 2004 has 680 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

JanaSanskrit[ show all samples ] (RJJanaSanskrit.TTF from JanaSanskrit.zip)Source: Free download via the Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) site.Stats: Version 0.99.1 has 941 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Kalimati[ show all samples ] (Kalimati.ttf)Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.Stats: Version 1.20 has 696 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Kanjirowa[ show all samples ] (Kanjirowa.ttf)Source: Free download from the font guide section of Nepali-language book archive Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya.Stats: Version 1.0 has 702 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Lohit Hindi[ show all samples ] (lohit_hi.ttf from ttf-indic-fonts_0.4.7.tar.gz)Source: Free download from Ubuntu.Stats: Version 1.00 has 344 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Lucida Sans[ show all samples ] (LucidaSansRegular.ttf, LucidaSansDemiBold.ttf, and may be others depending on the source)Note: The LSANS.TTF version of this font supports Latin only.Source: Provided with various products including Sun's free Java Software Development Kit version 1.4.2.Stats: Version 1.20 has 2,929 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Cyrillic (all or most of range), Devanagari, Greek (including Coptic characters), Hebrew, IPA, LatinOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Osho[ show all samples ] (Osho_v125.ttf [regular], Osho_v125_b.ttf [bold], Osho_v125_i.ttf [italic], and Osho_v125_bi.ttf [bold italic] from 177720-Osho_v125.tar.bz2)Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux).Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.Stats: Version 1.25 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

RaghuHindi[ show all samples ] (RKRaghuHindi_ship.ttf)Warning: There are issues using this font in Microsoft Word. It seems to work OK in other editors including BabelPad, WordPad, Notepad, and WorldPad.Source: Free download from IndiX: Indian Language support for the Linux Operating System.Stats: Version 1.00 has 675 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Saraswati5[ show all samples ] (SaraswatiNormal.ttf and SaraswatiBold.ttf)Note: This font does not have the OpenType tables necessary for Devanagari.Source: Free download from Sun Microsystems (after registration).Stats: Version 1/17/03 has 1,803 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: Latin

shiDeva[ show all samples ] (ShiDevaSk.ttf from Devanagari_OpenType.zip)Source: Free download from Ernst Tremel. (Click "Hindi" on the left to get to the download page.)Stats: Version 2.00 (2004 initial release) has 750 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

SHREE-DV0726-OT[ show all samples ] (SHREE-DV0726-OT.TTF)Source: Free download from Ardh Kumbh. Click on the "Download Hindi Font Now" image/link at the bottom of the main page.Stats: Version 1.00 has 344 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari

Uttara[ show all samples ] (uttara.ttf)Note: Designed for Classical Sanskrit & Vedic (with accents). This font supports thousands of ligatures and is also usable for modern languages written with Devanagari.Style: Uttara uses the Bombay/Mumbai style of Devanagari script while its sister font Chandas uses the Calcutta/Kolkata style (although it's not evident with the characters use for the sample text).Source: Free download from Chandas.Stats: Version 1.2 has 5,092 glyphs and 1,597 kerning pairsSupport: Devanagari, Cyrillic (Russian and other Slavic languages), Latin (with extensive coverage of letters with diacritics)OpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari, Latin

zviewGurumaa[ show all samples ] (zviewGurumaa_v128.ttf from 16645-Gurumaa_v128.tar.bz2)Source: Free download from KDE-LOOK (Linux).Note: Requires a program such as the free 7-Zip utility to extract files from the .bz2 download.Stats: Version 1.28 has 270 glyphs and no kerning pairsSupport: DevanagariOpenType Layout Tables: Devanagari